Moral Life Final Paper

If softball hasn’t been my entire life, it’s played an extremely large role in shaping nearly everything that has made me who I am today. I started at the age of seven, made my way through middle school, high school, eight years of year around travel ball, and now I’m currently playing in college. I have coached recreation league teams and the middle school team, when I was in high school, and I want to continue coaching after I graduate with an MBA in Sports Management.
The sports industry is always facing dilemmas, whether it be ethical or moral. At some point in time I want to be a college coach, it doesn’t matter if it’s at a Division 1 school or even a Junior College, I will always be faced with players making decisions that not only hinders them but hinders the team as well. In order to help me later on in the future, I have come up with a moral dilemma that might happen in my time of being a college coach.
I’m in my first year of head coaching at San Diego State University. I’ve had seven years of being an assistant coach at the collegiate level but finally have gotten my time at being a head coach. Half way through my first year I was approached by a roommate of a girl on my team that said she was no longer going to play because she was checking herself into the hospital for emotional distress. I asked my players and assistant coaches if they knew about what was going on with Alyssa, the girl who was going to the hospital for emotional distress. My players and coaches acted like they knew nothing, but I had a feeling something was going on, so I decided to make a trip to the hospital to check on Alyssa.
After the visit to the hospital, I found out that she felt like she didn’t belong on the team because players were ...

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...ibly solve this situation without using tactics that the coach would not want to go through if they were in the same situation. The problem with the golden rule is that it would need loop-holes for someone to use it in order to figure out what to do with the players.
Another theory that we learned about that could be used to solve this dilemma is the Cultural relativism theory. The theory says that a certain human’s individual beliefs and actions should reflect on one’s own culture. This, again, is extremely tricky to use because each individual in the world has different cultures and or ideas of one’s culture. If the coach was to use this theory then they would use whatever cultural aspect they grew up learning in order to deal with the players, and the head coach and assistant coaches may not agree on such outcome because of the difference in cultural relativism.